Two years after the 7 July bombings police radios still fail to work in the underground, a London Assembly committee said.
A report (pdf) from the London Assembly has found that two years on from the 7 July terrorist attacks, the capital's emergency services are still without a digital radio system that works on the underground …

Endianness!?

There's no endianness or ambiguity when the month is written as a word instead of a number.

It isn't, however, correct to write “the” or “of” in the middle of a date: it's purely a spoken construct. If you want to be picky, it'd be “7th July” with proper superscripting, but I'd be surprised if an El Reg article managed that.